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Joseph Turek, Ph.D. Dr. Turek earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the State University of New York at Albany. He holds an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a B.A. in political science and economics from Syracuse University. His research interests include scenario planning, the economics of terrorism, risk assessment, and urban and regional economic development. He edited Income Inequality and Social Stratification: Causes and Consequences (2008), the latest addition to Lynchburg College's Symposium Readings collection. He is a previous director of the Westover Honors Program as well as of the Walter G. Mason Center for Business and Economic Research. Dr. Turek received the 2001-2002 Shirley Rosser Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2006-2007 Bock Award for Excellence in Citizenship. |
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Atul Gupta, D.B.A. Dr. Gupta earned a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Delhi, India, an M.B.A. in operations management from the University of Northern Iowa, and a D.B.A. with a major in operations management and a minor in computer information systems from Cleveland State University. Prior to coming to Lynchburg College in 1997, Dr. Gupta taught at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Cleveland State University. His teaching activities include developing innovative and quality teaching materials that enhance the learning process. Dr. Gupta’s scholarly productivity has been disseminated through publication in reputed academic journals and professional conference proceedings and presentations. Much of his research focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing and service operations. He is the editor of International Journal of Business & Economics and Oxford Journal. He is also the program chair for Global Conference on Business & Economics. |
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Paul Kelbaugh, J.D. Dr. Kelbaugh earned his Juris Doctorate from Washington University School of Law. He received his MRM from the National Defense University. Dr. Kelbaugh has traveled extensively around the world. He is widely recognized as an expert regarding the intelligence community, ethics, and covert action authorities. He has been quoted by The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, PBS, and numerous other news sources regarding the historical perspective of CIA activities and authorities. He has been a visiting lecturer at various college campuses speaking about the portrayal of CIA in the cinema and his experiences with CIA. Professor Kelbaugh brings a unique mixture of real world experience, historical perspective, academic accomplishments, and an engaging sense of humor to his classroom. |
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Eric Kyper, Ph.D. Dr. Eric Kyper received his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota Duluth. He started his career as an information systems consultant specializing in database and systems design for custom business applications. While in his doctoral studies at the University of Rhode Island, he shifted focus from database design to data mining and business intelligence applications. Along those lines Dr. Kyper has published articles on those topics and continues to consult in the areas of data mining, business intelligence, and quantitative analysis. He teaches in the areas of information systems and statistics. |
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Dan Messerschmidt, Ph.D. Dr. Messerschmidt received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Iowa State University. Prior to joining the Lynchburg College faculty in 1985, he taught at Iowa State University, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and Westminister College. While at Lynchburg College, he has served as dean of the School of Business and Economics and as chair of the Department of Economics and director of the Center for Economic Education. He has served on the Board of Directors and is the past president of both the Virginia Association of Economists and the Piedmont World Trade Council. He currently serves on the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists for the State of Virginia. His teaching areas include International Trade and Finance, Money and Banking, and Macroeconomics. He has conducted research on the financing of health care, professional baseball labor markets, hedging strategies for financial institutions using interest rate futures and options contracts, and educational finance among other areas. |
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David Murphy, Ph.D., CPA, CGFRM Dr. Murphy received his Ph.D. in accounting from Washington State University in 1989. Prior to coming to Lynchburg College, he served as department head and taught accounting courses at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. He has also taught at Central Washington University, Oklahoma State University, California State University, and the University of Idaho. His primary teaching interests are financial accounting, information systems, and personal financial planning. His secondary teaching interests are international and managerial accounting. Dr. Murphy has developed and directed graduate programs in accounting in Bolivia, Peru, and the United States. He is the author of numerous papers which have been published in academic and professional journals in the United States, Europe, and South America and is the co-author of an accounting textbook. Dr. Murphy also served for two years as the academic director of a U.S. AID-funded anti-corruption graduate program in Bolivia, and then as the accounting reform adviser to the Minister of Finance in Kyrgyzstan and then as Chief of Party for the U.S. AID Accounting Reform Project in Uzbekistan and regional director of education. He spent a year in Peru as the senior anti-corruption adviser to the Controller General of Peru and most recently he has consulted as the anti-corruption adviser to the government of Bulgaria. |
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Maria Nathan, Ph.D. Dr. Maria Nathan received her Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1992. Previous to joining Lynchburg College, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Nathan teaches graduate classes in international business, management, global policy and strategy, and strategic human resource management in Europe and Asia. Dr. Nathan has received awards in recent years for her research, and has published in the Academy of Management Review and the Academy of Management Executive, among others. She is on five editorial review boards. Dr. Nathan is currently the department chair for the school's management program. |
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Stefan Nicovich, Ph.D. Dr. Nicovich received his Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Memphis in 1999. He also received a master’s degree in marketing from Memphis State University. Prior to joining the Lynchburg College faculty, he taught at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Memphis. His main research interests concern the effect of new communication forms on consumers. He investigates the psychological impact of artificial environments on consumers in terms of their attitudinal responses and subsequent behaviors associated with their experiences. He has taught courses in Consumer Behavior, Advertising, Principles of Marketing and E-Commerce. He has a number of refereed publications in first, second, and third-tier journals, including the Journal of Business and Economic Studies, The Journal of Interactive Advertising, The Journal of Computer Mediated Communications, Information Resources Management Journal, and The Journal of Interactive Marketing. He has also received funding from Bethesda Corp for his work on Presence in Mediated Environments. |
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Joe M. Prinzinger, Ph.D. Dr. Prinzinger received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University in 1974. His B.S. in economics was granted in 1969 by Rider College. Before coming to Lynchburg College in 1988, he worked for South Carolina State Health and Human Services Finance Commission as the chief economist along with other positions. He taught at such schools as Clemson University, Old Dominion University, and California State University at Northbridge. Currently he has published over a dozen journal articles and presented papers at over three dozen professional association meetings. His primary academic interest is Applied Microeconomic Theory. His teaching areas include Microeconomic Theory, Economic History, Managerial Economics, and Industrial Organization. |
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Gerald Rosson, M.B.A., CPA Professor Rosson obtained his M.S. and B.S. degrees in accounting from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to coming to Lynchburg College in 1980, he taught for five years at James Madison University and worked full time in public accounting. His teaching areas include a variety of accounting courses, essentially in Financial Accounting. Professionally, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and the American Accounting Association (AAA). Professor Rosson has co-authored and taught several continuing education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and for the Business Extension Unit of Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University. He has continued his public accounting work on a consulting basis. |
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Lee Schimmoeller, D.B.A. Dr. Schimmoeller received a B.A. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton, an M.B.A. from Oakland University, and a doctorate of business administration with a concentration in management from Nova Southeastern University. Before teaching, Dr. Schimmoeller worked in industry for 20 years as a design engineer, mechanical engineering manager, and manufacturing engineering manager. He has taught at several area colleges and has been at Lynchburg College since fall of 2005. His teaching areas include management, international business, human resources, operations management, and business strategy. Additionally, he is researching the effects of organizational culture on the dominant style of leadership in an organization. |
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Nancy Schneider, M.P.A., CPA, CMA Professor Schneider received a Master of Professional Accountancy degree from Georgia State University. Before joining the Lynchburg College faculty in 1990, she taught at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. She was also previously employed in public accounting as an auditor with the international firm Ernst & Young and as an internal auditor for an oil and gas corporation. Professor Schneider has a bachelor's degree in math education from the University of Florida, and formerly taught math in public schools in Florida. Her teaching areas include financial accounting principles and theory, auditing, cost accounting, management accounting and CPA Review. At Lynchburg College, Professor Schneider has received the Sydnor Award for Teaching Excellence in the School of Business and Economics, and the Shirley Rosser Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Schneider routinely participates in conferences, workshops, and continuing professional education programs to enhance and expand her professional knowledge and maintains an active CPA license. She has coauthored a number of accounting textbooks and instructor’s manuals. Her interests include advising and counseling students on both an academic and personal basis, implementing active learning strategies in the classroom, and finding ways to enhance student learning. |
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Michael Schnur, M.B.A. Mr. Schnur received his M.B.A. in finance and investments from C.W. Post College and his B.S. in management and communications from Adelphi University. He is retired from the Nassau County Police Department in New York. Before coming to Lynchburg College, Mr. Schnur taught at Germanna Community College in Virginia, Dowling College in New York, and Suffolk Community College in New York. He taught courses in Managerial Economics, Urban Economics, Money and Banking, Regulatory Economics, and Forecasting and Planning. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in finance. |
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Sally Selden, Ph.D. Dr. Selden earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, and her M.P.A. and B.A. from the University of Virginia. Prior to coming to Lynchburg College in 2001, Dr. Selden taught at Syracuse University, University of Oklahoma, and the University of Georgia. She has also worked as program evaluator for the U.S. General Accounting Office. Dr. Selden was given the Leonard D. White Award for the most outstanding dissertation in the field of Public Administration from the American Political Science Association in 1996. She has taught courses in Perspectives on Business, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Nonprofit Management, and Statistics. Dr. Selden has published over 30 articles, book chapters, and books. She is one of the principal investigators for the Government Performance Project, which is funded by the Pew Center on the States. Much of her research seeks to better understand the relationship between management capacity and performance, and how to assess human resource management systems. Dr. Selden has three sons and enjoys running and biking. |
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Yong Wang, A.B.D. Professor Wang earned his A.B.D. from Temple University, his M.S. in statistics from the University of Chicago, and his M.S. in economics from Fudan University, P.R. China. His teaching interests are in institutional investing, corporate governance, financial derivatives, and financial markets. |
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Frank Whitehouse, M.B.A. Professor Whitehouse is A.B.D. in industrial and organizational psychology (Virginia Tech), and holds the following degrees: Master of Business Administration (University of Virginia); master of arts (Drake University); and bachelor of arts (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). He has been teaching full time in the business program since 1980. He has also taught psychology courses at Lynchburg College and VPI. His teaching interests principally include Marketing and Marketing Strategy, Personnel Administration, and Organizational Behavior. He has worked as a psychologist's assistant at Lynchburg Training School and Hospital. More recently he has worked in sales for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and for Patterson, Murdock & Associates. |
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William Schneider, J.D. Mr. Schneider joined Bell & Schneider, PLC in January, 2003. He is on the panel of Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees for the Western District of Virginia and has extensive experience in both consumer and commercial bankruptcy law, commercial litigation and employment law. He has lectured and published articles regarding the Uniform Commercial Code, federal securities law, and bankruptcy and employment law. Mr. Schneider is a member of the Lynchburg and Virginia, Georgia, and Texas Bar Associations. |
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